Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Northchapel, St Michael - Regulations for Burials.

Date:

6 May 1890.

Body:

AT the Court at Windsor, the 1st day of May, 1890.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the limits of the Metropolis, and to amend the Act concerning the burial of the dead in the Metropolis,” it is enacted that, in case it appears to Her Majesty in Council, upon the representation of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that, for the protection of the public health, the opening of any new burial ground in any city or town, or within any other limits, save with the previous approval of one of such Secretaries of State, should be prohibited, or that burials in any city or town, or within any other limits, or in any burial-grounds or places of burial, should be wholly discontinued, or should be discontinued subject to any exception or qualification, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order that no new burial-ground shall be opened in any city or town, or within such limits, without such previous approval, or (as the case may require) that, after a time mentioned in the Order, burials in such city or town, or within such limits, or in such burial-grounds or places of burial ; shall be discontinued wholly, or subject to any exceptions or qualifications mentioned in such Order, and so from time to time as circumstances may require ; provided always, that notice of such representation, and of the time when it shall please Her Majesty to order that the same be taken into consideration by the Privy Council, shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall be affixed on the doors of the churches or chapels of, or on some other conspicuous places within, the parishes affected by such representation, one month before such representation is so considered ; provided also, that no such representation shall be made in relation to the burial-ground of any parish until ten days’ previous notice of the intention to make such representation shall have been given to the Incumbent and Vestry Clerk or Churchwardens of such parish :

And whereas the Right Honourable Henry Matthews, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, after giving to the Incumbents and the Churchwardens of the parishes hereinafter mentioned ten days' previous notice of his intention to make such representation, made a representation stating that, for the protection of the public health, no new burial-ground should be opened in the undermentioned parishes without the previous approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that burials should be discontinued therein with certain modifications:

And whereas Her Majesty was pleased by Her Order in Council of the eighth day of February last, to give notice of such representation, and to order that the same should be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council off the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and such Order has been published in the London Gazette, and copies thereof have been affixed, as required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no new burial-ground shall be opened in the undermentioned parishes without the previous approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that burials in the said parishes shall be discontinued, as follows ; viz.:—

NORTHCHAPEL. — Forthwith and entirely in the parish church of Northchapel, in the county of Sussex; and also in the old part of the churchyard, except as follows : — (a.) In such vaults and walled graves as are now existing burials may be allowed on condition that every coffin buried therein be separately enclosed by stonework or brickwork properly cemented. (b.) In such earthen graves now existing as can be opened to the depth of five feet without exposing coffins or disturbing human remains burials may be allowed of so many of the relations of those interred therein at the date of this Order as can be buried at or below that depth.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Michael and all Angels.

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